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    From MeaTLoTioN@21:1/158 to g00r00 on Fri Mar 15 03:07:04 2019
    Hey g00r00,

    I just found an interesting bug... thought you might like to know about it to check it out.

    A43 02/03/2019 version...

    Create a new node, make the PKT password 9+ characters and save the settings and then go back into the node settings, you get a massive amount of screen corruption and everything goes wobbly.

    Also, if you have a session password/fix/pkt/etc password length > 8 it might not connect and work, just had this when setting up a new node on my BBS.

    Thought you'd like to know about it, I can probably give you more info if you need it... just give me a shout.

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to MeaTLoTioN on Fri Mar 15 14:58:00 2019
    On 03-15-19 03:07, MeaTLoTioN wrote to g00r00 <=-

    Hey g00r00,

    I just found an interesting bug... thought you might like to know about
    it to check it out.

    A43 02/03/2019 version...

    Create a new node, make the PKT password 9+ characters and save the settings and then go back into the node settings, you get a massive
    amount of screen corruption and everything goes wobbly.

    I didn't think they were supposed to be more than 8+ characters anyway (by the FTN standards), but looks like a buffer overflow type issue there that needs to be fixed.


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to MeaTLoTioN on Fri Mar 15 21:41:00 2019
    On 15 Mar 2019 at 03:07a, MeaTLoTioN pondered and said...

    Create a new node, make the PKT password 9+ characters and save the settings and then go back into the node settings, you get a massive
    amount of screen corruption and everything goes wobbly.

    Also, if you have a session password/fix/pkt/etc password length > 8 it might not connect and work, just had this when setting up a new node on
    my BBS.

    Thought you'd like to know about it, I can probably give you more info
    if you need it... just give me a shout.

    will try and repo this, thanks for that report

    Fair to say that with some legacy 8.3 systems I have always tried to keep my passwords to a max of 8 chars and usually all uppercase too.

    Best, Paul

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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to MeaTLoTioN on Sun Mar 17 19:56:36 2019
    I just found an interesting bug... thought you might like to know about
    it to check it out.

    A43 02/03/2019 version...

    Create a new node, make the PKT password 9+ characters and save the settings and then go back into the node settings, you get a massive
    amount of screen corruption and everything goes wobbly.

    Thanks for letting me know. PKT passwords should be limited to 8 characters
    or less (its a PKT limitation) and when I redid the editor a little bit back
    I must have accidentally set it to 20. This in turn opened up a gravitation vortex somewhere in the galaxy causing interference in monitor signals that amounted to the distortion you saw on your screen.

    Its been fixed! Thanks :)

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  • From MeaTLoTioN@21:1/158 to g00r00 on Mon Mar 18 07:04:50 2019
    opened up a gravitation vortex somewhere in the galaxy causing interference in monitor signals that amounted to the distortion you saw
    on your screen.

    I think it got sucked out of existence down a Quantum Wormhole XD

    Its been fixed! Thanks :)

    Awesomes. Thank you for fixing it =)

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